SATURDAY 12-1:15PM – LOCATION: CUMMINS CREEK

Joyce Eberhart is retired from Oregon State University after 38 years in research. For most of her career she enjoyed doing research on forest mushrooms and truffles with her husband, Dan Luoma. Dan is a retired professor from the Department of Forest Ecosystems and Society at Oregon State University. Dan pursued research on the diversity of ectomycorrhizal fungi in natural and managed forests of the Pacific Northwest. He also conducted research on, and developed monitoring protocols for, commercially harvested forest mushrooms. Dan has particular expertise with those fungi that produce truffles. He has taught forest mycology through the Siskiyou Field Institute and Southern Oregon University and general mycology through OSU.